From the Desk of Murray Lincoln: Michael Jackson

It was 6:05 PM when I first learned of Michael Jackson’s death. The TV reporter locally had just uttered the words of the news flash – Michael Jackson was dead. Given that there is a 3 hour difference between California and Ontario – the news was very New… at about 2:36 PM in California from one report I read – the news of his death had just started to circulate.

To find out more I Googled – “Michael Jackson is dead” as a search phrase. At 6:10 PM there were 1140 responses to this phrase. At 11:04 I did the same thing to read more about it at that stage of the day – 5 hours later. The Google search produced 14,700,000 responses. This morning at 5:00 AM I repeated the same search phrase and received 51,300,000. In a short 12 hours it climbed to the huge number of responses from the search.

As a person that watches Media and all things Media it is absolutely stunning what is going on now.

To continue my “study” I also Googled, “Elvis Presley is dead” and the response was 3,510,000. Knowing that he is one of the biggest music industry/pop culture stories ever – it still was not what I expected.

I then tried “Farrah Fawcett is dead” and received a response of 3,300,000. For you that had not heard Farrah also passed away some time yesterday as well. She was also a person of high media attention.

Back to Jackson…
I have for years watched the story of Michael with great interest. A childhood star that could sing circles around everyone . Then as a young rising star on his own, to eventually become the still rising but very troubled star that people followed in his every move.

What could be said of the recent times to describe this man was at best – “weird”.

He could not accept his physical appearance so he changed it – leaving him as a kind of freak show. Yet most of what he did in life was finally that very thing – a freak show… a joke… an unkind world hating him.

The most tragic part of his life that we all watched but could not believe was the possibilities that he was a pedophile – a child molester.

On Wikipedia you will read the following…
People v. Jackson (full case name: The People of the State of California v. Michael Joseph Jackson) was a 2005 child sexual abuse trial involving the late recording artist Michael Jackson. The alleged victim was a boy, Gavin Arvizo, referred to as "The Accuser". Arvizo was 13 years old at the time of the alleged crimes. Michael Jackson was indicted for four counts of molesting a minor, four counts of intoxicating a minor, one count of abduction, and one count of conspiring to hold the boy and his family captive at his 2700-acre Neverland Ranch compound. He denied all counts and asserted that he himself was the victim of a failed extortion attempt. On June 13, 2005, the jury found Jackson not guilty on all charges.

From this paragraph it would seem that it was over. In actual fact the evidence presented pointed to a very sick world that Michael lived in… and even sicker were the parents – many of them – that allowed their children to be alone with Jackson for over night sleepovers – with him… not only with him but in bed with him.

When and if you read the link below – to Wikipedia and the full account of the trial of 2005 – you will be looking into one of the sickest worlds ever… where money quiets people… money buys what you want and the sickness continues.

I can only imagine at the amazement of men that have been convicted of sexual abuses of all kinds must think – when they read what is written.

Knowing that sexual abuse and also the acts of pedophilia often produce more abusers of all sorts… society has not seen the end of the Jackson era. What happened at “Neverland” is not over by a long shot.

Yet – “we” idolize this kind of person. We will read about (and even write about) him for a long time to come.

“Neverland Ranch” in Los Olivos, CA. will very likely become a huge money producer like “Graceland” in Memphis, TN.

Oddly enough both places had sordid pasts because of the people that lived there – and the public is fascinated with it.

I just shake my head… can you believe it? I wonder what God thinks of all of this? What a huge tragedy this all is… what a waste. God help us all…
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Finally…off the wall…
To make the “dead story” study more well rounded I popped in “Murray Lincoln is dead” in the Google search and came up with 106,000.

So I tried two more – I popped in “Winston Van Lier is dead” and “Terry Manley is dead” – both friends of mine. Shockingly Winston received 20,200 and Terry received 80,800. My rating was higher – but not in a good category.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com